chicory

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

noun A perennial herb (Cichorium intybus) of the composite family, native to Europe and widely naturalized in North America, usually having blue flowers.

noun Any of various forms of this plant cultivated for their edible leaves, such as radicchio.

noun The dried, roasted, ground roots of this plant, used as an adulterant of or substitute for coffee.

from The Century Dictionary.

noun The popular name of Cichorium Intybus, a composite plant common in waste places, found throughout Europe and Asia as far as India, and naturalized in the United States.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

noun(Bot.) A branching perennial plant (Cichorium Intybus) with bright blue flowers, growing wild in Europe, Asia, and America; also cultivated for its roots and as a salad plant; succory; wild endive. See endive.

noun The root, which is roasted for mixing with coffee.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

nounbotany Either of two plants of the Asteraceae family: true chicory (Cichorium intybus) and endive (Cichorium endivia)

"These are really interesting results as they demonstrate that gastro-intestinal acceptability of dietary fibres such as chicory fructans is not as limitating as it has been described previously," she added.

"These are really interesting results as they demonstrate that gastro-intestinal acceptability of dietary fibres such as chicory fructans is not as limitating as it has been described previously," she added.

"These are really interesting results as they demonstrate that gastro-intestinal acceptability of dietary fibres such as chicory fructans is not as limitating as it has been described previously," she added.